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How to Count Triplets -
In music, a triplet is a group of three notes played in the time of two notes of the same value. Essentially, it’s a rhythmic device that divides a beat into three equal parts instead of the usual two.
The one that immediately comes to mind is London Calling from the triplets lesson on B2B. Had a tough time with that one.
The best way to count a triplet is to say “tri-puh-let”. If swung, push the rhythm with an accented “TRIH-pu-l’t”
Cha-Cha, Swing, and Polka dances are all based on triplet rhythms, and learning the basic step of those is a really good way to ingrain that rhythm.
Ed frieland teaches it … ba cha da
Sounds closer to drum sounds
Steve Harris (Iron Maiden) is renowned for his triplets
A good one to start with is Under Pressure by Queen
Almost any slow blues in 12/8 can be interpreted as eighth note triplets over a 4/4 groove. Here is the rhythmic basis for that - listen for the hi-hat to play the triplets:
And here is a groove track:
The Trooper comes to mind
Ah I think we are straying into the area of the metal gallop rather than a triplet. Good video here shows the difference -
Can’t think of any triplet songs personally. Maybe Moonlight Sonata?
Oh (lightning fast edit) How about In the Chapel by the Moonlight by Celtic Frost?
If you want to mix it up a bit The WASP from the Doors is quite challenging with triplets mixed up with 1/4s and 1/8s (working on it at the moment). Although once you’ve got the first bar in the clip below figured you’ve actually got 90% of the bass line which repeats this driving beat for most of the song with some variation and some fills/turn arounds.
I don’t know the song, but from the way these “triplet” figures are notated, I would assume that they more than likely try to transcribe a swung or shuffle feel here.
Indeed, it’s a continuous gradient from straight eights to swung (tripletty) eights and to shuffled “eighths”…
Yes it’s very much a blues shuffle sort of sound in which the rests are essential to the feel of it.
It’s also got passages like this:
This is the actual track:
My first post is at about 0:50 and the second one is around 2:30
Not really THAT surprising. It’s an artefact of trying to transcribe a “feel”, and there are different swing feels and different shuffle feels, with completely straight eighths at one end of the spectrum and potentially a march rhtythm at the other end.
And then there is J Dilla 
